gwen: we know, then, in that case who james holmes, the suspect is not. what do we know about who he is? >> what we know is that he was a neuroscience major, a person who had been a medical students at some point. for some reason that had begun to fail him. he recently was in the process of dropping out of class. he was known by people to be a very smart person, honor student in terms of undergrad. again, very bright man with a promising future. how he descended to this madness is what police are investigating tonight. >> pierre, this is doyle mcmanus. even if this weren't an election year, people would be speculating or wondering whether there was anything political about this. do we know anything about his motivations? >> again, that's one thing that police are looking at. one thing that the new york police commissioner talked about was a briefing that he got in which the young man apparently called himself "the joker," and that his hair apparently was dyed red or orange-red and he may have been somehow acting out in character in coordination with this